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Oh, do yourself a favor and read it. Zelazny at the absolute top of his game. I've got the huge compendium book that has all ten books in it. My wife bought it for me when I couldn't find the second book in the series. Love it.
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Lord of Light, Isle of the Dead and Creatures of Light & Darkness are also pretty awesome Zelazny tales.
I've probably read Lord of Light five times.
I've been meaning to read A Song of Fire & Ice, but I tend to get attached to certain viewpoint characters and follow them through the story, and, from what I've heard, even from his fans, Martin doesn't make that easy...
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Hmmm, yeah, I tend to be a one person focal story reader. Never could get into things like tolstoy that had (to me) unpronouncable names and stories that shifted in amoungst five or ten different characters.
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The Amber series was one of my favorites growing up. Along with Shanara and the Covenant books. I have to say, for me, they don't hold the same attraction at my current age. But the Fire and Ice books do. Which just means my tastes have changed as I've gotten older. But I still can't get thru any of the LoTR books, then or now.
On another note, Lance, have you been following the Maester's Path? Just finished The Night's Watch. Love seeing the clips you get access to when you complete a puzzle.
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Um, I dunno what the "Maester's Path" is. Fill me in, ok?
I will definitely check out at least the first Amber book.
Also, in at least some defense of GRRM, "Dance" is a pretty lengthy book. Let's pretend he wrote 1200 pages in 6 years. This means 200 pages a year, which at least makes me feel a little better about his efforts to finish.
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Lance, Amber is the modern blueprint for familial potlitical intrigue. It doesn't get any better than this in all the fiction I've read. And thats a lot.
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The Maester's Path is a site started by HBO. You follow a set of challenges, released weekly, in order to become a Maester. Each challenge gives you a sneak peek inside the show with exclusive clips (which are probably all over YouTube anyway). It's kind of cool.
You are supposed to collect five novices too. So if you, or anyone here, decides to try please become my novice and I will return the favor.
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Ok, Rick, stop twisting my arm. I just got back from Columbus and the St. Patrick's Day stuff (my wife is an O'Reilly, so we gotta do the big family thing each year) and I ran right out to the library and I picked up the first 5 Amber books, in 2 volumes. They don't seem very big, so I should go through them quickly.
Scott, I am also gonna check out the Shannara books too.
I actually meant to read both series many years ago, but I never got to it.
I am also going to check out how much it costs to get HBO for just the duration of the series. Or is there another way to see it?
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Oh, and Scott, I agree about Lord of the Rings. The books plod along so slowly. I have never understood how they became as popular as they are.
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Scott, I have the same question about the Shannara books - how many of them should I read? Do they continue to be good, or do they peter out after awhile?
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